Clean Streets, Clean Environment

Green Streets achieve multiple benefits, such as improved water quality and more livable communities, through the integration of stormwater treatment techniques which use natural processes and landscaping. Green streets can incorporate a wide variety of design elements

Keeping the environment clean is important to being healthy. Many disease-causing germs exist in dirty environments, such as the ones that cause diarrhoea and worm infections. This means that many diseases can be prevented through good personal hygiene, and by keeping the environment clean. Some of the benefits of a clean environment are

• Cleanliness promotes mental clarity.
• Regular handwashing can prevent the spread of infections.
• A clean environment automatically boosts our self-confidence.
• Cleanliness gives a fresh and good look to our surroundings.
• Avoid diseases caused by unhealthy environments.
• The environment becomes cooler.
• Free from air pollution.
• Water becomes cleaner and safer to drink.
• More calm in running daily activities.

Clean air and water, sanitation and green spaces, and safe workplaces can enhance people’s quality of life: reduced mortality and morbidity, healthier lifestyles, improved productivity of workers and their families, improved lives of women, children and elderly and crucial to mental health.